Morning Links: Excessivism Edition

Amalia Ulman has a real-life counterpart. An 18-year old Australian Instagram model (600,000 followers +), Essena O’Neill, has renounced her social media fame and recaptioned all of her photos honestly, saying, “Social media is not real life. I don’t want to promote greedy industries or photoshop or fake art.” [Dazed Digital]

On October 22, Italy’s Chamber of Deputies passed a law which reclassifies museums as “essential public services” along with schools and hospitals, thereby limiting culture workers’ rights to strike. Unions are now threatening a nationwide strike. [The Art Newspaper]

Modern art is looking to make a comeback at the upcoming New York auctions. [The Telegraph]